Because they occupied Cangwu County again, the Chu army was extremely morale. Although they knew that the number of Han troops was nearly two and a half times that of theirs, they still firmly believed that under the leadership of Prime Minister Zhuge, they would eventually defeat the Han army, capture the entire Jiaozhou, and then go north to capture the Central Plains and overthrow Liu Yu's "traitor"!

The Chu army did not all stand in the city of Cangwu County because they were afraid of the Han army's siege and did not attack. At that time, as long as the Han army monitored various city gates, the Chu army would be known to the Han army and it would be difficult to use strategies to defeat the Han army. Therefore, Zhuge Liang left only 7,000 Chu soldiers in the city of Cangwu County, and the remaining 40,000 Chu soldiers were in the camps built on the city, and confronted the Han army, the eldest son of the emperor, Liu Rui, who came to fight against the Han army, the eldest son of the emperor, outside the city of Cangwu County.

Deng Zhi walked into the tent and reported to Zhuge Liang: "Prime Minister, Jiaozhi County has just recruited 700 new recruits."

Zhuge Liang frowned immediately: "Only seven hundred people?" Compared with the nearly 100,000 people in Jiaozhi County, there were too few recruits. You should know that during the vassal of the princes, a county with a population of nearly 100,000 could recruit at least 10,000 soldiers, and even some coercion, and even ignored production, could recruit about 15,000 soldiers.

Zhuge Liang had to sigh in his heart. It was not the period of a melee between the princes. If you want to truly expand your army on a large scale and strengthen your strength, you can only defeat Liu Rui's army first and capture the entire territory of Jiaozhou.

The morale of the Han army is not low, because every Han soldier knows that Zhuge Liang and other Chu army were defeated by the Han army back then, hiding on a mere island, and now it only occupies a few counties in Jiaozhou. Behind them is the entire Han army, not to mention that their number is nearly two and a half times that of Zhuge Liang and other Chu army, and they have an absolute advantage.

Even Jiang Wei and Deng Ai were energetic, and Jiang Wei stood up and asked for battle: "Your Highness, I want to fight in front of the 'anti-jun' camp, and I will kill the heads of the 'anti-jun' general and severely destroy the morale of the 'anti-jun'."

Deng Ai naturally was unwilling to fall behind, and followed Jiang Wei and stood up to ask for a fight.

The two are the most powerful generals of the younger generation this year. With the older generation of powerful generals such as Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, Wei Yan and the youngest Ma Chao are close to fifty years old, almost no one can defeat Jiang Wei and Deng Ai.

If the two really go to the Chu army camp to fight, I believe that one of the Chu army generals will definitely come out and die, which will definitely shave the Chu army's morale.

But Liu Rui did not want to do this. He smiled at Jiang Wei and Deng Ai and said, "Boyou, Shi Zai, you two are invincible. However, going to challenge like this, you will only kill several generals of the "anti-army" and fight to the point of being scared. Zhuge Liang is good at strategy. He doesn't know that you have the strength of the two. If you use a plan, there will be some mistakes. You can take the opportunity to defeat the "anti-army" in one fell swoop. Wouldn't it be even better?"

When Jiang Wei and Deng Ai heard this, they looked at each other and then retreated.

Lu Xun was on the side. Now he knew that the eldest son of the emperor was wise and neither anxious nor impatient. With the two generals Jiang Wei and Deng Ai, although he had never seen the two generals take action, he was an invincible general. He only had to look at the momentum around him to know one or two. There was no doubt that Jiang Wei and Deng Ai must have extremely strong martial arts, at least not inferior to the older generation Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, and Gan Ning.

Now, Lu Xun really regrets it. He was really too self-righteous before.

The eldest son of the emperor is not an incompetent person, and there are two generals Jiang Wei and Deng Ai. If Zhuge Liang had indeed ambushed the 100,000 elite army of the eldest son who went south, he would have been caught off guard and suffered a great defeat.

Lu Xun sighed silently there.

When the eldest son of the emperor Liu Rui saw it, he asked, "Lu Xun, you were the governor of the Eastern Wu back then. In your opinion, how can you defeat Zhuge Liang in the end be safest?"

Lu Xun suddenly came to his senses. He knew that his chance to show off had come. He could not keep the impression of "incompetence" in the eldest son's heart.

Lu Xun pondered for a moment before saying, "Since Your Majesty unified the world and reshaping the universe, Jiaozhou has been peaceful for nearly ten years, and the people have been peaceful, but Zhuge Liang has brought about war again. Therefore, Zhuge Liang is not able to support the people of Jiaozhou. All he can rely on is about 50,000 anti-army troops from Zhuyazhou Island. The rest have almost no combat power, which can be ignored. Although Zhuge Liang has successively captured Hepu County, Jiaozhi County, Yulin County, and Cangwu County, his losses have exceeded 10,000 people. Now his real elite troops are less than 38,000, and our army is nearly 120,000 of them, and the overall strength is no less than that of Zhuge Liang!"

Lu Xun continued: "Although Zhuge Liang has extraordinary strategies, strategy cannot replace absolute strength. Our army has absolute strength advantages and does not need to compete with Zhuge Liang for strategy. It only needs to be gradually consumed. It consumes 300 Zhuge Liang's men every day, and at most one or two months, which is enough to steadily defeat Zhuge Liang. Your Highness will definitely win in the end!"

The eldest son of the emperor, Liu Rui, pondered and knocked on the Taiwanese desk with his fingers, which made Lu Xun's heart unable to help but follow him up and down. From this point of view, although the eldest son of the emperor, Liu Rui has not yet officially enthroned the crown prince and has not yet become the emperor's emperor, he has already possessed the dignity of the emperor.

After a while, the eldest son of the emperor Liu Rui smiled and said, "Lu Xun, you really have some knowledge. This is indeed the safest, but it doesn't take two months. This highness is expected to be enough to defeat Zhuge Liang in one month."

With three times the strength, and with the desire of the people, if Zhuge Liang and other "anti-army" cannot be defeated in a month, then he will seem too incompetent and his father will be disappointed in him.

Under the order of the eldest son of the emperor, Liu Rui, the Han army was underground about two miles away from the Chu army camp.

The next day, the eldest son of the emperor, Liu Rui, ordered Zhou Cang and Xu Sheng to lead 10,000 Han troops to tentatively attack the Chu army camp.

The Han army bypassed the front of the Chu army camp and attacked from the side, smashing the wooden railings of the Chu army camp with a catapult. At the same time, the strong bow and crossbow were thrown and archery rain were shot, and the Chu army soldiers on the edge of the camp were shot.

The Chu army in the camp also fought back with catapults of the Han army, and the Chu crossbowmen also fought back against the Han crossbowmen.

Due to the many covers deployed in the camp, most of the Chu army's crossbowmen were hiding behind the cover, and the number of shots by the Han army's crossbowmen was not large. On the contrary, the number of deaths and injuries of the Han army's crossbowmen was more than twice as many as that of the Chu army's crossbowmen.

After more than 400 casualties, the Han army broke through the wooden railings of the Chu army camp and entered the Chu army camp. The soldiers of the two armies began to fight more fiercely.

The Chu army camp was designed and arranged by Zhuge Liang, and it has layers of defense. It is not that the wooden railings on the edge of the camp were broken, and they could drive straight into the center of the Chu army camp.

If the Han army wants to truly reach the center of the Chu army's camp, it needs to break through the Chu army's defense by more than a dozen layers.

As the defensive side, Chu soldiers could hide in various covers to kill and injure the Han soldiers rushing into the camp. As the attacking side, Han soldiers could only forcibly attack. At every moment, a large number of Han soldiers were killed and injured by Chu soldiers.

In just about two quarters of an hour, the Han army entered the Chu army camp for only about a hundred meters, and the casualties reached nearly two thousand people, while the Chu army soldiers were killed and injured.

It is obviously not advisable to blindly attack like this. Since the depth of the Chu army camp has been tested, the Han army has no need to continue attacking, so they withdrew from the Chu army camp.

In the next period of time, the two armies began to enter a protracted confrontation and consumed each other.
Chapter completed!